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OUR PRICES ARE LOWER
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Parlor, Chamber and Dining Room Suits.
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Cold Trimmings-by which we shall demonstrate that the Cheapest as well as the Choicest stock Is that of
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836 Broad Street.
TAXATION iN
GEORGIA
Where the Real Fault
is Said to Now Lie.
Co«ii»;rollff. Wright Is »Ctllfd to
(h«n»e His Plan.
Th# plan propp'd by Comptroller
Gcnrrrl Wright to ra'se revenue la not
ca» which. in cut opinion, would great
iy a*a.M th- utatc In gelling out or bar
tbu.nc.a! dim .Tilth’'. The plan la It
c in,i I Ito il. ra of securities of all
kind* to reglater then, with «h# ortll
nr t!e« or county rotam sston.-n of
«h*!l recpctiv# nmatlm. giving their
u ; rkoi ru<l Ibetr fare vnluaa. and
making Hum non-roll actable tbrooKb
the rrAir.a unless returned fur taxa
tion No doubt a great <l»al of per
gonal property of one kind and nnothet
subject to taxation under the ruling*
of the court*, bow e arc Tea the tax bur-
A» u, b> i the amount l« act rearly *o
great aa the eimptrollar geneva! tblnke
It U. If all cf It were to lie put cn
the tax recatver'a book#. the Increaaa
la the ttr'c'a Income would not be any
where near sufficient to meet the
aluu's nted*.
And what would happtu If the pro- ;
pm'Hi plan want adopted? '>Vkat ha»
happened In reaped to the debenture*
of the Atlanta and West Point rail
road? Until recently three aaeurltlea
wart? regarded a* exempt from taxa
tion. When It waa ordered that they ;
be taxed, the holdere began to sell
them It la ante to Bay that within a
year or two few. If any. of them will l»e
held In the stale. What 1* happening
In reat.eet to there debenture* would
happen In reaped to about all other
kinds of securities. They would be
gold out of the state.
First class bonds now pay ottl.v on
average of 4 per cent. The stale* Sty
per cent bends are selling for consid
erably above pur. Five per cent rail
road bonds of the second clasa do not
commend ahywhere near par. In the
c'tles, particularly this city, the rate
of taxe.tlor I* over per cent A
juki who holds 4 per cent bonds ha*
to glee more than half of his income
from them for taxes. In fact, the hold
er;- cf 5 per cent bonds have to give
tl-: larger half of their Income to the
ft-'e. lives the comptroller general
think 1 possible l<* devise a plan that
would make all the holders of securi
ties give up the greater pad of their
Income for taxes? Is It right that so
grew! a part of a person * Income
should tie taken for that purpose?
\nd it most no< he forgotten that
Im. trmttoa of land* and Mortgage*
end moat other kind* of aecurUlca l» j
| .ju.ibie taxation. It* at estate la tnaed
al |ta market valfue- No allowance l» .
| made for the mortgage that may en- I
'.-umber It Aad then the moil gag* la
taxed That la double taxation. The
anme t» true la reapac* to railroad#
, The roada are lut'i '• aarb ronnty lor
I atat*. eauaty #od. where they rater
cities municipal purtsum* And yei
ithe bond* of th* roada. which repre
sent the value of the road*, are also
taxed.
In moat state* where bonds and
mortgagee are taxed real estate I*
taxed only to the extent that II I* hot
eon mb. red In ether atatea. I*enn
»)i\.nU fc- Instance, the tax on bend*
i nd mart rage* I* very light. Ou bend*,
taertgage* and money In the state
m Hie tax rate la only one-fourth
of one per rent. That I* the kind of
miction th* framer* of ihe constitu
tion Intended to have In thl* *t»te. If
that Intention were carried out It I*
certain that Ihe stale would be l.enefl -
ied In many way* Securtle* would he
mere generally held In the state, and
would he given In freely for taxation.
The comptroller would not be talking
of a draatlc plan for reaching securi
ties f.ir taxation which are supposed
to he bld.ten from the tax receiver.
Would It net Im> well for the number*
of the legislature to study the tox law*
of some of the other states before un-
I'-rt ..king to reform the tax laws of
this state?
Thr legislature has a difficult prob
lem to solve In the state’s flnatulal af
fair* The legislature that passed the
lsw pensioning Confederate veteran*
mid the widows of veterans acted with
out kncwlitlßi' of Gie extort of th ‘
burden it was putting upon the stale.
If li had known how grrat an upprt
prlation It would require annually to
pry the pensions It would have hesi
tated a long time before passing the
■ pension bill In the shape In which it
was passed.
But. as a matter of fact, arc thno
noi many on the pension roll who are
net entitled to he there? Has the rare
been exerclred In examining applicants
lor pensions there should have been .’
It is not difficult to find those who
think there has been great careless
ness. or e'se favoritism. Would it
not be well for the legislature to look
into thl# matter? An Investigation
might show that there Is no need for
pension*, ns some cf the mem
bers of the legislature propose It
would be aiffictm. of course, to get at
the truth in respect to penslonets. but
ths truth eau be bad, and it ought to
be Usd In Justice to those really de
serving pensions.
\ni> what does the legislature pro
pose to do ill respect to equalising ti»X-
THJ) Jk. T7QT7ST-A. BTTNDAT HBIHALn
atloa? )v. * M not know that more
(baa bat.*-—yaa. more ibaa two-third*
of the count lea dra* more nat of the
treasury than they pay into It? Why
la this? I* K not bemuse the valua
tion la these routine# which do not
hrlp to support the atate are only a
flic ka of what they ought to be? If
property were laird at alsiut Its mar
ket value Ik all parts of (he state the
present dfflculiy fa the plate# finan
cial affairs might not exist.
The member* of the leglalature might
aa well make up their inlads to one
thing, and that la that the people are
not going lo la #att*4l»d wlih any tax
reform la* that saddle* the whole
burden of supporting the atate upon
about forty of the 127 countie*. If the
tax receiver* refo*« to value property
at eomewhere near It# true value In
the counties which are now a drag on
the treasury. It Is the duly of the leg
islature to find a wav to have property
In thrar counties valued as It should
be There can be no tax reform that
permits property to he valued at about
one-fourth of It* market value In
Ihrce-fourth* of the countlea while It
Is valued at about It* real value In the
other fourth. —Savannah New*.
HOW DOGS ARC “FAKED.”
Cruel Methods Adopted to .Make Pet
Animals Conform to Fashion.
Time waa when tlog shows were as
sociated with beer and the churchward
en pipe in an east end or wayside pub
lic house, when the owner of a cham
pion bulldog fed his pet on a pound
of rump steak and let hi* family starve
upon a crust. The dog. too, *ot all the
kicks.
In our days we have changed nil
that. The old-time dog show still ob
tains, and you may occasionally see it
advertised In Ihe sporting papers, but
there are two powerful aascoclations
who each In their way. with wealthy
purses, have Improved the lot of the
n'odern day dog and given him a so
cial status.
But with all the power of these two
associations ngalnpt them, the tricks
and dodges of the dog fakirs of old still
obtain. They have simply changed
their eoats.
The dog fakir of the past, to get a
very small breed of pet dogs, kept the
lungs cf the animal closed by onra
preseion in puppyhcod, and by plug
ging the .nostrils at stated time*
stopped a proper system of respira
tion. The modern fakir takes the rel
ics of the older days and Inbreed* from
the smallest type cf do*, and regulates
thy feeding of his animals.
To moke the eyes of toy spaniels
large, bulgy, and round, and the coats
o rich color, the animals were kepi
a moat the beer' barrels in the public
hoc** cellar* ta pwrp* trial dacha** l
while lb* spaniel imp* wrrr helped’
la th* matter of becoming very abort
nosed by hating (he bon** surrtuad
ung the nose pressed 4o the heal while
th> v were la a soft and tinder rartllag*
slat*. Tr<tal th*a* method* are pot
ao —-rrvy for a long roura* of "fak
ing" through many geiyrat on* has at
last pudweed the malformation a* a
permanent type, hut la the spaniel sad
many cAha* breed* of dog* the tjpa
at riven hw I* Mill “Mp 4."
When th* moilern bulldog Is rho**u
from a litter of pupa, lb* loose#®
skinned «* marked nut to work upon,
and then, to put U httodly. “the fua
begin*.” A* the pup g*4* along In Ilf*
he I* atrbmlttrd to a process of skin-’
pulltag twitll hi* head la one mass of
wrinkled *ktn and hanging rolla of
fur. Painless, of course, but still Ul*
"faking.”
The more unscrupulous give an ar
tificial kink to the puppy’s tall by
breaking the vertebra where nature
he* forgotten to do It. and pulling the
foreleg* out at elbow to give breadth
of chest and genera! all-round loose
ness of appearance; but this 1* con
fined to few.
Bloodhound*, too. and pug* both
have to be "helped” at time*. If na
ture doc* not conform to the fashion.
lAndsfcr’* lovely big-eyed bloodhound
In h : » picture, "Dignity and Impu
dence," In not to the tuele of modern
connoisseurs. He must be padded with
roll upon roll of loos# akin; his ear*
must hung low down, and the eye* be
all Hnt sightless, hidden Sway, a* they
tire, In overhanging brow*n.
Mon* people will notice how beauti
fully the highly bred rcllie drops hi*
car* over. Well, there are dog fakirs,
who keep In the dark, who, if they
happen to possess a good pup whose
cars are too strong, run a needle
through the ear under the skin, and
keep the head in splints, aa 14 were,
for some time, until the ear* drop.
Other methods are followed to weak
en the nerve# of the ears. Sometimes
a drop of acid 1* put on the nerve, and
the ears are pulled and flaps of weight
ed wood are fastened to them.
Other ways of faking dug* include
the pulling out of white hairs and the
dyeing of patches of white fur too big
to be pultfd out. Cropping and dock
ing still flourish openly, although the
kennel club rules are framed to stop all
faking.
It Is left, however, for woman to do
u great work, in ktamplug t out the art*
and dodge* of a bygone, unenlightened
time, and Hi the Ladles’ Kennel Asso
ciation we paasess a power for good
which will ultimately effect a great
purpose In doing away wph nil fakes
and fa* of dog dealer*. ,
LOUS WAIN.
THE BIRTH OP
AN ISLAND
A Strange Phenome
non at Sea.
—r—
The E,\pfriffice of a Slip »nd Her
Cirv.
From tb* New York Herald.
; Philadelphia. Pa.. Nov. T.—Aa Island
arna upbeaved on th* night of Sept. IS.
In the southern part of the Indian
ocean, according to the captain aud
rrew of the British steamer Breeon
•hlre. which has arrived here from
Java with a cargo cf sugar.
The man on the outlook, according
to the captain, about 4 o'clork in the
efternoon cf Bept 15. saw a cloud
loom lug up directly ahead. The cloud
spread until the entire horixoa ahead
was obscured by a wall of vapor. Into
which the captain did not dare to en
ter until the next morning, when he
would have fourteen hours of daylight
ahead of him.
The at earner hove to and the sailors
terrified by the unusual vapor waited
anxiously for th# next day to rome.
Th# moon came up, and by Its light the
sea waa seen to be smooth a# glass.
Shortly after 10 o'clock that night a
booming sound was heard aliout ten
mile# to the northward.
At the same moment, borne upon
the bosom of au immense wave, the
Breconshire mounted vertically to a
point at least, twenty-five feet above
her former position on the ocean bed,
and to the accompaniment of an im
mense upheaval of water an Island
appeared to leeward, where all pre
viously had been but the sea and sky.
The suddenness of the event almost
deprived the crew of their Brest, but
they had little time to comment on the
phenomenon, being obliged to look to
the safety of the vessel. It was many
anxious moments before that safety
was assured, but apparently as though
nature had exhausted herself, the sea
in n few moments, returned again to
Its wonted tranquility and the loom
ing clouds of vaprr disappeared.
When day downed a clear view was
afforded of the island, nod its volcanic
origin was clearly established. It con
sisted of vertical columns of hard min
eral arranged with wonderful geomet
rical exactitude resembling very
strongly the pictures of the famous
Giant's Causeway. It was found to be
only a small Island, possibly not more
than one-quarter of a mile In oireum
ferovtco. ,»nd nt It* highest point no!
[at a greater altitude than too feet. In
.all probability the near Island has been
la formation for many years below the
surface, and only by aa upheaval of
i extraordinary intensity did H emerge
! above the surface.
THE CIGARS OF MANILA.
Now Much Better Than Those Ameri
cana Used to saiok«.
Manila Correspondence Chicago later
* Oceaa.
Cigars and cigarettes are remarka
bly cheap, even In Ihe face of the eco
nomic condition* that exist In the
east. The cheapest cigar* are aold for
$lO per I.uOO, and the most expensive
for SIOO per 1,046. Reduce that to a
gold baala, and yon find yourself won
dering how they ran be made for the
money. The cigarettes arc even cheap
er. The cheapeat grades retail for 114
and 2V4 cents Mexican per package of
twenty-four and thirty rigarette*. and
, the grade# in most common use sell
at the factory for S2O Mexican, or $9.50
gold, per 1,000 packages of twraty-four
and thirty cigarettes each. The best
cigars can be bought at retail at the
cigar stands for 5 and 10 cents Mexi
can. and It Is recorded that in the days
of Ihe monopoly a very fair cigar, as
Manila cigars go. could be bought for
t and 2 cents Mexican. The genuine
Manila cigar of today I* net known In
the United State#, and if ever It finds
its way there It will at once spring
Into Immense popularity. The old Ma
nila (Igar. short and stubby, cr cone
shaped. la rapidly passing, and In Its
place modern cigars are being made.
All of the modem shapes in vogue in
Europe and America have been Intro
duced since the monopoly ceased to
exist, and anything that pleases the
fancy may be had at the kiosks of Ma
nila. The modern cigar m«de of the
best Cagayan or Isabel tobacco, is not
as goed as the Cuban product, but it
will bear fair comparison with It, and
is certainly the superior of scores of
the domestic brands sold in the United
Slates. The tobacco Is milder, and
there is no flavoring Introduced Into it
nor any chemical process resorted to
In treating it.
There are 15,000 Americans In Mani
la now. and they take very kindly to 1
the better grades of Manila cigars, and
t reP ]y predict a revolution In the cigar :
industry in the United States in the
event of the annexation cf Luzon or
the Philippine group. The cigarettes
at e also made of pure tobacco. The en
tire industry has suffered on account of
the inferior grades that are shipped i
from here, and Manila cigars have been j
unfairly condmned.
The average small native planter
grows no more tobacco and does no
nor# work than t* ibtolowlf bw#*
nrv to #irn t livinf Hr plants In
November and gamers la Mareh. and
In the interim raise# what mat** he
weed* for bis house and farm. Ha list
no oiher rare#, and borrows sour. He
pickets the market price *ti* th*
buyer srrltra*. and It keep# him until
he reot-r again. He has to sort hla
Haves Into five aitea and bundle them
Into manor, each of which contains 100
leaves, an-l there rod hie troubles.
There are right targe, and between fif
ty and oar hundred atnall factories in
Manila, and the former employ from
400 to 2.000 operatives each. In the
marnfaetcre of the better gradea of
i eigara men end boy* *r# employed al
mnet exclusively while on the rbeaper
cigar* and cigarette# woaMSi are more
grnerrlly employed. The former are.
as a rule, paid on the piece system,
while the latter are often contracted
for In gangs and answer to their em
plryers only through the sub-contrac
tor. Wage# vary, not only as to the
grr.de of ihe cigars made, but aa to
the skill of the operatives, and there
la a wide range in pay. Expert rlgar
makers In the larger factories can
earn $1 In Mexican, or 45 cents on the
gold basis, but the average is nearer
to 76 cent# Mexican, and among th#
children and less expert operative*
wneee range down to 20 and 30 cents
Mexican per day.
The Kaiser's Big Soldiers.
From the London Chronicle
"The tallest man In hla army." who
t« accompanying the German Emperor
Hi his visit to the East, is a grenadier
named Chlemke. who Is nearly 6 feet
10 Inches In hi* stockings This Fred
erick William mania of the kaiser's I#
an old device cf his for impressing the
foreigner. On returning from his visit
to Constantinople in 1889 the emperor
sent the Sultan a complete set of kettle
drums, which he Intrusted to the tall
est officer in the army. Lieut. Pies
kow. who is very little. If at all. under
7 feet Once, ludeed, when this Prus
sian guardsman looked over a seven
foot garden wall and asked a girl pick
ing gooaeberrles therein what was the
way to so-and-so. the simple maiden
told him to ride first to the right and
then to the left, and he would find the
plr.ee he wanted. The nymph had hon
estly fancied that an officer* overpeer
tng her garden wall like that must nec
essarily be on horseback.
The Jonesboro Enterprise notes that
the Australian ballot seems to be
working all right in several other
states and calls for It for Georgia.
When -rgland and France and Rus
sia go to war, wheat will get a regular
Loiter boom.